Mellor St Mary Church of England Primary School
Primary · Blackburn · BB2 7JT
Ungraded inspection: no current grade
Ofsted's most recent visit was an ungraded inspection; its outcome was “Improved significantly”. Since September 2024 these outcomes no longer confirm a named grade, and the school's last graded inspection is too old to appear in Ofsted's current data file, so SchoolFacts shows no grade rather than guessing. Earlier grades are on the school's Ofsted report page.
Inspected 25 March 2025
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144 pupils · 100% of 140 capacity
- School type
- Voluntary aided school
- Age range
- 4–11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Religious character
- Church of England
- Free school meals
- 11.8% of pupils
- English as additional language
- 4.3% of pupils
- SEN support
- 8% of pupils
- EHC plan
- 3.6% of pupils
- Website
- www.mellor.lancs.sch.uk
- URN
- 119424
Admissions demand: Reception entry, September 2026
1.00 first-choice applications per place17 places offered · 17 first-choice applications · roughly balanced
First-choice applications per place, by entry year
Applications and offers on national offer day, DfE. A ratio above 1.00 means more families named this school first choice than there were places.
Key stage 2 results (2024/2025)
20 pupils at the end of key stage 2 in 2024/2025
Source: DfE performance tables 2024/2025. “Suppressed” means the DfE withholds figures for very small cohorts.
Attendance (2025/26 autumn term)
Autumn-term absence, DfE pupil absence data. Lower is better.
Staffing
Full-time-equivalent, 2025/26.
Teacher retention (2024/25)
100% of teachers stayed at the school the following year
School Workforce Census, DfE. The ratio counts full-time-equivalent qualified teachers; retention follows teachers in post one November to the next. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Spending per pupil
Total expenditure ÷ pupils, council-maintained school finance return (DfE Schools Financial Benchmarking, latest year). Higher spending is not a measure of quality. It often reflects greater pupil need or a smaller school. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Inspection history since 2015
- 25 March 2025: Improved significantly
- 13 March 2019: School remains Good
Ofsted management information. Ungraded and monitoring visits do not award a new grade. How the two inspection systems work.
Nearby schools
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Osbaldeston
- Lammack Primary School
- Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School
- Balderstone St Leonard's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
- The Olive School, Blackburn
- Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School Blackburn
- St Silas's CofE Primary School
- Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy